One of the ways to increase the reproducibility of research is for authors to provide a sufficient description of the data analytic procedures so that others can replicate the results. The publishers of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fifth Edition (WISC-V) do not follow these guidelines when reporting their confirmatory factor analysis results. Consequently, scholars have been frustrated when they have tried to replicate the results in the WISC-V technical manual. I explain how the WISC-V publishers set the scale of their latent variables and demonstrate how to replicate the WISC-V models using the R statistical program.
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